A New Documentary About Pipe Smoking

So through a strange twist of fate, I got hooked up with a writing gig over at a website called Dapperism.com, and it turns out that the site is full of avid pipe smokers. Yesterday, this post appeared on the home page about a documentary in the works called "Father the Flame", which is a documentary about pipe smoking, pipe makers, and the art of relaxation that comes with smoking a pipe. Thought you guys might find this cool. Check it out!

I think that getting information about pipe smoking out to the public and having them see that we are not a bunch of nicotine addicted fiends and that we are gentlemen and ladies of leisure will help to crush a lot of stereotypes. I am excited as well!

maybe in my next reincarnation, I can be a pipe maker, gotta be better than this crap I'm wasting my life away at.

We need more pipe video's for sure.

Earth: The Insane Asylum of the Universe. Nowhere else could things be more messed up.
Does a culture based on separation and competition, of scientific sophistication and mideval religion, offer happiness even as it ravishes the Earth that sustains it?

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." -Mark Twain-
"A pipe helps a wise man to think and gives a fool something to put in his mouth" -Trischman's Paradox-
"Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim;...but I discipline my body and make it my slave." -1Cor 9-

From what I gather it will only happen if they can raise enough money to make it. Sort of like kick-starter. http://www.indiegogo.com/fathertheflame
Maybe all of us pipers and pipesmagazine.com or sponsors could help get it going?

Even if you can't drop money on it, at least share the link everywhere you can. Supporting independent film is cool anyway, and this one is about pipe smokers! It's a chance to give a new audience respect for our hobby (lifestlye, religion, affliction, whatever).

It's a shame they can't raise the money. $75,000 is not a huge amount for a project such as this. I didn't delve deeply, but at first blush it may be that their goal is/was to raise the money from individuals. There's a lot of idealistic indy filmmakers who eschew commercial support, thinking it's something of a "sell out."

In my days in showbiz, we had sponsors fighting all over themselves to sponsor our World Championship of Volleyball film. It was an easy sell, fully funded and ESPN did the distribution.

The reality of life is I've no doubt this documentary would be finished and available now had they a motivated agent who garnered commercial support. Oh well.

what an odd thought (not by you Roth, by the film makers). How do they suppose sets get built, equipment gets purchased, people earn a living to put food on their tables? If money is so evil and corrosive, they could always give it away, burn it or fund other like minded indie film makers.

I wonder why they didn't use Kickstarter instead. Has much more exposure, and success. $75K is way to much to ask for, $15K would do it, you're telling people right off the bat it's not going to raise the money. The prize tree is wrong, again research would have helped here. I know many people that have gone through the Kickstarter process, and some research should have been done on how to get the movie made. They did a great job on a promo video, but lacked scenes of hobby makers, and the all important sit down talk at the end. Tried to hard to make the promo a movie and not a request for funds.
Just thoughts and things I know others have gone through.

Oh, grats on the gig!

Craig

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” Patrick Henry

It's all in knowing what the heck you're doing. It's one thing to be a writer and/or film maker, quite another to have the know-how to make it happen. There's a ton of film projects that end up, as we used to say, on the cutting room floor.

We need to find out what the actual status of this project is and if it is possible to get it moving. I would thing if we could get this site, Pipes & Tobaccos magazine, and the UPCA talking about this some real money could be raised. I am going to email these guys and see what is cooking.

I actually contributed to these guys' campaign to make this film and I never even got a response (no thank you, no acknowledgment, no email, nothing) and that was after several attempts at contacting them and even offering some of my leather goods to auction off on the forums so as to get the word out and generate more money for them. I don't know what happened, really, but it's a shame because the preview trailer looked really interesting. Too bad.

“When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I just went back and watched the trailer for this again, and the fact that this film may never see the light of day just breaks my heart. It was such a cool concept and I really liked the way that it was done. If I had the resources and the know how to do something like this I would love to try and make a documentary like this.

I have friends that have gone from start to finish on getting a project like this done. They did just about everything possible to make this not happen. I hope one gets made, I'd love to make one, even if a script was perfect, the people needed to make this would never touch a smoking documentary. Only way a project like this would ever get made is with upfront investors. The shame is that with today’s technology, it could be finished for fewer than 25K. Plus would actually be one that had a chance of return on investment.

We're working on a short film from the footage we got at Lee's place up north. Also creating a treatment and working on our plan of attack for the feature version. Lots of work to do so we're just taking it one step at a time. We are also going to be at the Chicagoland pipe show this May. Will we see you there? "

The shame is that with today’s technology, it could be finished for fewer than 25K. Plus would actually be one that had a chance of return on investment.

+1

I agree that it could be done for 25k (if the filmakers forgo any salary), but call me a pessimist, I am not sure if they would be able to get this aired or even shown in small boutique theaters. The topic of tobacco is taboo, so it might never see the light of day.

I know I would watch it and enjoy it, but not sure if the general public would.